What’s in a Name? February 26, 2010
Posted by AngelaTrikic in : Terminology , trackbackFollowing on from Vicki’s report about the excellent Buzz lunch she organised, I would like to comment on a couple of points. First, of all I was especially pleased that so many members of the Academic Liaison Team were able to participate in the event as these colleagues work in each academic school across the University and have an opportunity of not only highlighting opportunities for staff to access open educational repositories available, but also encourage deposits to the LOR.
On this point you will have noted Yvonne Monteterroso’s announcement of the availability of JorumOpen. This means that once we have completed the testing, staff will have easy access to their:
- School LOR,
- the NTU LOR and
- JorumOpen
Being able to harvest from these three repositories will improve access to resources considerably and we’re planning to add to this list with MERLOT (multi-media resources) shortly. Clearly the more resources on offer, the more staff are going to be motivated and see the benefits of using the repository.
At the Buzz lunch, Hugh Hamilton questioned the use of the term LOR. He claimed that staff do not know what it means. It’s a term staff haven’t come across. I recall a discussion about terminology early on and we took the view that we should use the language of our user community so Hugh’s observation is prompting a review. We have an opportunity to replace the term LOR with Repository within the VLE environment and we’re consulting on this proposal at present.
Whilst on the topic of names, we haven’t at present got a name for our repository. The Open University have got their OpenLearn, Southampton their EdShare and MIT, MITOpenCourseware so I think its time we came up with something snappy and meaningful. I think we did a good job in naming our project SHARE, so maybe this offers a good starting point. Any ideas out their???
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